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free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) software for electromagnetic simulations
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How to set up a plane wave source with any polarization angle #2673

Closed Superwbb1999 closed 9 months ago

Superwbb1999 commented 9 months ago

How to set up a planar wave source with any polarization angle? Is it handled by multiplying the corresponding components such as Ex or Ey by the trigonometric function of the polarization angle?

smartalecH commented 9 months ago

See this tutorial: https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Python_Tutorials/Eigenmode_Source/#planewaves-in-homogeneous-media